Individualized System for Augmenting Ventilation Efficacy (iSAVE)

Rapidly and safely expanding ventilator capacity

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  • Coronavirus Disease (COVID-2019) Situation Reports

    April 4, 2020

    Daily coronavirus disease situation reports from the World Health Organization outline the evolving epidemiology of the outbreak. 


  • Joint Statement on Multiple Patients Per Ventilator

    March 26, 2020

    A statement from the American Society of Anesthesiologists advising clinicians against placing multiple patients on a single ventilator. 


  • Working Protocol for Supporting Two Patients with a Single Ventilator

    March 26, 2020

    The Greater New York Hospital Association, working to support the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, developed an emergy protocol titled: “Ventilator Sharing Protocol: Dual-Patient Ventilation with a Single Mechanical Ventilator for Use…


  • Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths

    March 13, 2020

    An estimate on the number of deaths associated with the COVID-19 pandemic based on CDC estimates. 


  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Emergency Use Authorizations for Medical Devices

    February 4, 2020

    The FDA have issued, and continue to issue, a number of emergency use authorization protocols for medical devices during the COVID-19 pandemic. 


  • Ventilator Stockpiling and Availability in the US and Internationally

    May 3, 2018

    Clade X, a pandemic exercise performed in 2018, indicated that the maximum ventilator capacity in the US did not meet the estimated requirement of a major pandemic. 


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